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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 2 8:02pm | Replies (37)
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Interesting point you bring up. Unfortunately there is no answer today, hopefully this is being studied. An awful lot of people want an answer to this, I would start doing ultra tests if this was shown to make a difference in diagnosis.
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I don't think ultrasensitive PSA makes a difference if your PSA is already detectable; the main benefit is that "undetectable" becomes a lower (and thus, more-confident) number, by at least an order of magnitude.
Do U.S. insurers routinely cover the uPSA test, or do you have to kick up a fuss? I originally had mine done at a private lab, so I was forced to wait 2–3 days to get the result. Now I just walk to the hospital lab itself (same distance), and see the result in my online chart in 1–3 hours instead.